Otto Fenichel however took issue with Alexander on this point, maintaining that'The pseudo-alloplastic attitude of the neurotic character cannot be changed into a healthy alloplastic one except by first being transformed, for a time, into a neurotic autoplastic attitude, which can then be treated like an ordinary symptom neurosis '.
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Here's an indication of where this one might go : Frank's boss, the least-neurotic character in the cast, is played by Richard Lewis . ( Who, it was revealed at the show's session at the Television Critics Association ( TCA ) Summer publicity Tour, actually once baby-sat Lonow, then later dated her .)
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Alexander considered that'neurotic characters of this type are more easily accessible to psychoanalysis than patients with symptom neuroses . . . [ due ] to the fact that in the latter the patient has regressed from alloplasticity to autoplasticity; after successful analysis he must pluck up courage to take action in real life '.
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Lemmon was also a perfect actor for bringing Simon's neurotic characters to the screen, among them the fastidious hypochondriac Felix in " The Odd Couple "; the hysterical visitor to New York in " The Out-of-Towners " ( 1970 ); and the jobless paranoid in " The Prisoner of Second Avenue " ( 1974 ).
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Lemmon was also a perfect actor for bringing Neil Simon's neurotic characters to the screen, among them the fastidious hypochondriac Felix in " The Odd Couple " ( 1968 ); the hysterical visitor to New York in " The Out-of-Towners " ( 1970 ); and the jobless paranoid in " The Prisoner of Second Avenue " ( 1974 ).
